I wrote Shun the Moon in 1994. It began as a short story called “Natasha”, which never saw publication. Eventually, I expanded the characters and created their back stories, injecting some new ideas into the werewolf trope, and the novel came to life. The story line follows a dysfunctional family of lycanthropes over hundreds of years. When I dusted off the novel in 2023, my intention was to self publish it. The novel was set in the era in which I wrote it, and I decided to keep it that way. A lot of the plot just wouldn’t have worked in the age of cell phones, 24-7 accessibility, and surveillance everywhere. I tweaked it a little and sent it off to Graveyard Press. They liked it, but felt it wasn’t horror enough, so they forwarded the manuscript to their sister imprint, Water Dragon Publishing.

Shun the Moon